AN EXCHANGE of e-mails about The Thinking Housewife was sent to me and I promised to respond to it. The exchange between two men is posted below, with some minor editing changes. My response follows.

Fred writes:

Lots of interesting ideas from this right-wing website. It reminds me of how things used to be — some of what used to be was good, some was bad — a lot of the good got thrown out with the bad.

A huge loss was the idea of a one living wage job per household — this was the good reason to discriminate against women joining the workforce. We should have kept that rule, but with modifications. Read More »